Rise Up, Oh Heart, For There is Another Battle to Win

lupinatic:

oodlyenough:

something that stood out to me rereading prisoner of azkaban this time was how remus is also 100% ready to kill a bitch once he learns what has really happened

he’s so often characterized as a huge softie and/or the morality pet in fic but at the end of POA he’s even more ice cold about this revenge murder plot than sirius; lol he literally just rolls up his sleeves and is like “well peter, time for you to die”

this is the same remus who berates harry for not being willing to kill death eaters in DH this is a man who grew up in a warzone who did everything he could to not be the monster that society said he was so he became a soldier instead there are worse things than killing just as there are worse things than death this is one of the reasons why I have an issue with AK being one of the ‘unforgivable curses’ you ask me a quick painless death doesn’t compare to mind-control or torture and there is no way that death eaters were the only ones using killing curses during the first war peter wouldn’t have been the first death eater that remus had killed and I don’t think he would have seen the execution style of it as being any different to killing in the heat of battle or in self-defence this is the man who killed his best friends; harry’s parents; who was responsible for sirius spending 12 years in azkaban this is no different to if sirius had managed to kill peter when he tracked him down the day after james and lily died they were just 13 years late

This. It’s worth noting that Remus is strongly implied to have a huge problem with the Dementor’s Kiss - he asks Harry if he thinks that anybody really deserves it, even believing at this point that Sirius killed the Potters. Remus is not a fan of inhumane punishments or unnecessary cruelty, but he clearly believes quite firmly in the necessity of taking a life at times, especially when it’s a case of either self-defense or justice.

I also think that Remus was even madder at Peter then he ever was at Sirius, because Sirius had actually endured a consequence to his betrayal and Peter had not - in fact, he’d successfully passed off both the blame and the consequence onto Sirius.